Open AccessRigor or rigor mortis
Author(s) -
Margarete Sandelowski
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
advances in nursing science
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1550-5014
pISSN - 0161-9268
DOI - 10.1097/00012272-199312000-00002
Subject(s) - rigor mortis , rigour , trustworthiness , qualitative research , psychology , objectivity (philosophy) , reliability (semiconductor) , validity , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , medicine , psychometrics , sociology , clinical psychology , social science , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , anatomy
Issues are raised by the persistent concern with achieving rigor in qualitative research, including the rigidity that often characterizes the search for validity in qualitative work and the threat to validity that the search for reliability may pose. Member validation is highlighted as a technique that exemplifies not only the practical, but also the profoundly theoretical, representational, and even moral problems raised by all procedures aimed at ensuring the trustworthiness of qualitative work.